adjective

• to eat.

  Lets go to Micky D's and bust a grub.

  by Tom S., Philadelphia, PA, USA, Apr 30 1998.

verb

• to see.

  I caught a movie at the theatre in Springfield last night.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001.

• to get, buy, attend, etc., when referring to meals. Origin: perhaps derived from hunting, as in catching an animal for food.

  I caught lunch at the deli down the street.

  Do you want to go catch a bite to eat?

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001.

• to hear, understand.

  Did you catch that?

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001.

verb

• to eat.

  I need to get my grub on.

  by Lane Winblde, Mesa, AZ, USA, Jun 20 1997.

verb

• to eat. Usually used to refer to food laid out "buffet" style, as at a party. Thus a partier, instead of eating what is directly in front of them, will move around eating from different places, much like a cow. (It's usually bad form to "graze" at a restaurant buffet: one is supposed to fill a dish and then eat at one's table.)

  Cool, a buffet table, let's go graze!

  by Elizabeth W. Bromberg, Birmingham, AL, USA, Mar 08 1998.

• to snack on one food after another.

  Stop grazing! It's almost dinner time.

  by Jonathan H., Jan 02 2004.

adjective

• good tasting.

  That chicken is grub!

  by Lane Winblde, Mesa, AZ, USA, Jun 20 1997.

noun

• food.

  Let's go get some grub.

  by Lane Winblde, Mesa, AZ, USA, Jun 20 1997.

• a dirty or gross person.

  He is such a grub!

  by Kerri, Canada, Feb 12 2000.

verb

• to eat. See also grub up and get (one's) grub on.

  I need to grub.

  by Lane Winblde, Mesa, AZ, USA, Jun 20 1997.

• to labor in uncomfortable, low-paying, dangerous, and/or filthy conditions.

  I grub for a living in Florida's sugarcane fields.

  by Harold Z., Pleasanton, CA, USA, May 29 2008.

verb

• to eat.

  by Lane Winblde, Mesa, AZ, USA, Jun 20 1997.

noun

• a guest who eats all of the host's food and drinks all of the host's drinks.

  I can't believe that hodger ate all the cookies and drank all of the milk!

  by Anonymous, Dec 04 2002.

noun

• fellatio.

  She will give you the best hover you ever had.

  by John O., Apr 29 2005.

• a person talented at fellatio.

  Man, she's a hoover!

  by Will D., Portland, OR, USA, Jan 25 2006.

verb

• to clean. Origin: the Hoover brand of vacuum cleaners.

  You are not going out to play until you hoover that messy room of yours!

  I have to hoover the bathroom before the party starts.

  by Susan Baglien, Wauwatosa, WI, USA, Sep 23 1997.

• to eat very quickly. Origin: the same vacuum cleaners. Someone eating quickly could (in theory) be mistaken for a vacuum cleaner.

  He hoovered the whole pizza!

  by Annie Trimble, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Mar 11 1998.

• to quickly consume a drink.

  Wrap your lips around that glass and hoover.

  by Mark H., Canada, Jul 15 1998.

• to be very bad; TO SUCK.

  Man, that really hoovered!

  by Mo M., Warren, OH, USA, May 28 2002.

verb

• to attempt to attract; HIT ON.

  I macked on some females last night.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Dec 29 1996.

• to eat.

  I macked on some food.

  by Cliff M., Sonoma, CA, USA, Apr 01 1998.

verb

• to defeat soundly. Perhaps a reference to "rape and pillage."

  The Raptors got pillaged in their last game.

  by Graham W., Ontario, Canada, Feb 02 2000.

• to eat.

  Let's go pillage.

  by Cameron Bookout, Boulder, CO, USA, Oct 06 2001.

verb

• to expel liquid (or, more rarely, food) out one's nose by laughing in the middle of a swallow.

  We were sitting in the kitchen, and JJ cut a nasty muffin, and I snarfed lemonade all over the table.

  by Nathan Long, Gainesville, GA, USA, Mar 30 1998.

• to acquire for onesself, with little concern for social norms, but not quite by stealing.

  I was so hungry I snarfed that whole bag of chips!

  They were giving away free samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them.

  by Curtis K., Santa Clara, CA, USA, May 16 1998.

• to eat voraciously.

  You really snarfed your dinner!

  by Curtis K., Santa Clara, CA, USA, May 16 1998.

verb

• to eat a meal; go get something to eat. Origin: the way horses are sometimes fed: by strapping a bag full of food to their head.

  Let's go to McDonald's and strap on a feed-bag

  by Elizabeth W. Bromberg, Birmingham, AL, USA, Mar 08 1998.

verb

• to get something to eat. Notes: believed to have originated in California.

  Call me and we'll go take a bone.

  by Carl Popolo, Boston, MA, USA, Oct 01 2001.